Fake Dog Poop, April Fool’s Day Prank

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April Fool’s Day Pranks are great fun for both adults and children. My kiddies and I have been in fits of giggles today making our prank for tomorrow’s unsuspecting visitors. We’ve been creating something so wonderfully disgusting, revolting and repellent that it deserves a place in a Roald Dahl story. We’ve made…Fake Dog Poop!

I’m not sure who’s more pleased with our Fake Dog Poop, April Fool’s Day Prank in all honesty, my children or me? My love of April Fool’s Day started when I was a little girl and every year my Headteacher would try to trick the whole school with some outlandish story in assembly time. There was something wonderful about a teacher being joyfully cheeky that stuck with me and in my teaching life I would always try to do something for my students for April Fools Day too, perhaps schools were going to run an hour longer, or on Saturdays too, or the school lunch delivery lorry had broken down and we’d have to go without lunch that day. Harmless fun.

Today we hadn’t actually set out to make Fake Dog Poop at all. It was a happy accident. We’d actually been aiming for slime but couldn’t get the recipe quite right and it kept turning out too thick and rigid. As I dolloped the third unsuccessful batch on the table in despair it curled itself up and looked just like..yes, dog poop! And there the excitement began! We grabbed the brown paint from the cupboard and set to work with our failing recipe for a fourth time and created the most magnificent and wondrous April Fools’ Prank we could imagine, Fake Dog Poop! Here’s how we did it…

(This post was first published March 2013 and has been republished for your convenience.)

Comments

I did it and left it next to my dad’s bed…left for a few minutes and came back and it had collapsed a little and merged. Still works well but try to blend color of poop with the color of the floor if you have wood floors and it’s less noticeable

Hello Emma,
Saw your april fools poo prank, i have a question, is it possible to make it hard and weather resist? I would like to make one but it would be outdoors for a long while….any idea how to do that?

I’m so pleased you like it 🙂
Ours stayed shiny and wet looking for a few days but did sink and flatten a little and then after about a week it started drying up and darkening on the outside a bit, much like the real thing would I think…Yuk!
Ours didn’t last much longer than a week as it had been so used by then it was covered in fluff and grass etc so we gave up on it. It’so easy to make we just whisk up a new batch when they want some more.
I hope you have lots of fun with it whatever time of year you decide to do your pranking. 🙂

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